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McElhaney Structural Engineers is a structural engineering firm in Reno, Nevada that has built a reputation as one of the top structural engineering firms in the West. The firm is known for civil structural engineering services including structural design and analysis, seismic evaluations, value analysis/value engineering, and 3D building information modeling (BIM), all with the goal of creating safer structures for a hazardous world.

McElhaney Structural Engineers has a great deal of experience with a broad range of civil engineering design for residential and commercial projects. We routinely perform sewer/septic design, water design, grading and drainage design, storm water drainage design, and overall site planning. We have experience with overall community planning and development for housing projects including roadway design, utility design, and drainage design. Our goal as civil engineers is to provide realistic designs that are effective (ie. a rainstorm will not cause anyone’s house to flood), but also buildable and within budget.

McElhaney Structural Engineers’ founder and lead engineer is Brett McElhaney, MBA, MS, PE, SE, a visionary structural engineer and member of the Cherokee Nation whose first career was spent working in psychology before he went back to school to earn his Bachelor’s in civil engineering and Master’s degree in structural engineering. Brett’s unique blend of structural engineering expertise, sensitivity to the human condition, and personal penchant for “doing what’s right” for clients, communities, and stakeholders make him a “psychologist of the built environment.”

Brett’s unique skill set and perspective pervades the firm’s work culture, making McElhaney Structural Engineers a natural “go-to” source for services ranging from structural engineering, design and analysis, assessment, drafting, plan review and calculations, code and permit consulting, value engineering, and community development on a retainer basis for tribes and municipalities.